As a result of the space race in the 1960s, NASA created some of the most iconic artworks of the 20th century in their quest to reach the moon. These ubiquitous images were printed on the covers of ...
This weekend, a 56-year old NASA satellite is set to be retired in a glorious blaze of fire. The Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) satellite studied how the Sun affects the Earth’s magnetic ...
NASA has imploded the administrative headquarters of the Marshall Space Flight Center to make way for a new state-of-the-art facility on the storied site in Huntsville, Alabama. The Marshall Space ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Katherine Johnson, a former NASA ...
Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations played a major role in the development of the Space Shuttle program, died Monday at the age of 101, NASA confirmed. Johnson was part ...
As far as job adverts go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Originally featured in a 1967 issue of Scientific American, the full-page ad by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory resonates perfectly ...
One East Texan has a special place in national history. Roy Sitze began working for NASA in 1960 following four years of service in the U.S. Navy. While at NASA, Sitze worked as an engineer, focusing ...
The folks over at Popular Science have a new post about NASA’s trials and tribulations in creating “jet shoes” during the mid-1960s. And they look straight out of some old science fiction comic. First ...
WASHINGTON — When Katherine Johnson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953, she was classified as ‘‘subprofessional,’’ not far outranking a secretary or janitor. Hers ...
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